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4/24/11

ELBERT HUBBARD Quotes


"A friend is someone who knows all about you, and still loves you." ~E. Hubbard

"A little more persistence, a little more effort,  and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success." ~Elbert Hubbard 

"All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite." ~Elbert Hubbard

"All things come through desire, and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed." ~ Elbert Hubbard

"As we grow better, we meet better people" ~Elbert Hubbard

"Carry your chin in and the crown of your head high. We are gods in the chrysalis." ~ Elbert Hubbard

"Do not fear being misunderstood; and never waste a minute thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do, and then without violence of direction you will move straight to the goal." ~Elbert Hubbard4

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." ~Elbert Hubbard

“Every saint has a bee in his halo.” ~Elbert Hubbard

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." ~Elbert Hubbard

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Fences are made for those who cannot fly." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Happiness is a habit – cultivate it." ~Elbert Hubbard

"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words." ~Elbert Hubbard

"I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate." ~Elbert Hubbard

"If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends." ~Elbert Hubbard

"If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why." ~Elbert Hubbard on Loyalty

"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Keep your mind on the great and splendid things you would like to do; and then, as the days go gliding by, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing upon the opportunities that are required for the fulfillment of your desire, just as the coral insect takes from the running tide the elements it needs." ~Elbert Hubbard

“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.” ~Elbert Hubbard

"Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Many a man"s reputation would not know his character if they hggvmet on the street." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." ~Elbert Hubbard

"No matter what you have done for yourself, or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Preserve a right mental attitude; the attitude of courage, frankness, and good cheer." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not." ~Elbert Hubbard

"The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live." ~Elbert Hubbard

"The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour." ~Elbert Hubbard

"The greatest mistake you can make i life is to always be afraid that you're going to make one." ~Elbert Hubbard

"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work." ~Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915)

"The love we give away is the only love we keep." -Elbert Hubbard

"The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed-it is a process of elimination." ~Elbert Hubbard

"There is no failure except in no longer trying." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Thought is supreme. Preserve the right mental attitude—the attitude of courage, frankness and good-cheer. To think rightly is to create." ~Elbert Hubbard

"Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every hand-clasp." ~Elbert Hubbard

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